Boy Quote by Jon Scieszka Download Open image “We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.” — Jon Scieszka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boy Including Like Literacy Lot Narrow Promoting Version
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and… — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“For centuries, no one was concerned that books weren’t girl-friendly, because no one really cared if girls read; but even so, we persisted for long enough that literature has slowly come to accommodate us. Modern boys, by contrast, are not trying to read in a culture of opposition. Nobody is telling them reading doesn’t matter, that boys don’t need to… — Foz Meadows Copy Share
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“a 1997 Boston Globe article notes that “several new studies highlight the problems boys have in reading and writing, showing that they are far… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it.… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say,… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
As a boy from Patna, I've always dreamt of a chance to showcase my talent. — Abhimanyu Singh Copy Share Image
“Boys will always be boys,’ he said. ‘The relationship obviously wasn’t meant to be.’ He told me I should trust that the break-up was… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys.… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
I just like guys who have an edge to them. But it could go either way. Like, I have been into the surfer blond… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image